Hitchcock Week: Paramount Pictures

Hitchcock Week: “Psycho”

Hitchcock Week: “The Birds”

Hitchcock Week: “Rope”

Hitchcock Week: “Rear Window”

Fun Facts Week: Leave it to Hitchcock

To Jerry Mathers, the Universal Studios lot was a playground. The lot has always been busy, but it was particularly busy around the time that Jerry Mathers was shooting his iconic sitcom Leave it to Beaver. One of the biggest film productions rolled onto the lot in 1959 when Alfred Hitchcock began production on Psycho. While Beaver and Psycho were miles apart creatively, they were practically neighbors on the lot, sharing a makeup artist- Robert Dawn. Mr. Dawn would often find himself rushed, so his very different work projects would often become twisted together. In one such instance, Dawn had to take Mother Bates' head to the Beaver set. Instead of being freaked out, Jerry was ecstatic to see the fake head (what 11 year old boy wouldn't be?) and actually got to help Dawn finish it.

 

Alfred Doesn't Go to DISNEYLAND

 

Horror Month! Hitchcock's Psycho

 

Horror Month! Classic Killers in Rope!

Alfred Hitchcock was a master of producing chilling films. In Rope, there's actually no real mystery; we see the two young friends commit the murder onscreen. They believe they've cleverly hidden their crime in plain sight. The body is stashed in a cabinet that they prominently display during a dinner party, daring their guests to figure out what they've done.

 

Only their nosy college professor, played by the legendary Jimmy Stewart, suspects that something is up. Sir Alfred builds up the suspense while the audience begins to see the two killers begin to unravel. Will they be found out? These two killers are made all the scarier because they appear to be two normal young men who commit a murder simply because they want to see if they could get away with it. Anyone would trust guys like these, right?